A hint of payola in Segundo California

El Segundo ignores millions in potential taxes from Chevron, records show

While Chevron and the city try to strike a deal, documents obtained by The Times show that in the mid-1990s, El Segundo ignored a preliminary audit showing Chevron owed as much as $9.5 million in back utility taxes and then ordered auditors to stop work.

City officials later reached an agreement with the oil producer that resulted in El Segundo receiving no money at all. At the same time, the city capped Chevron's future natural gas taxes at $150,000 a year plus inflation — a fraction of what auditors said the city should be receiving.

The abrupt cancellation of the audit led a lawyer for the auditors to write a letter to El Segundo, saying the firm "has never encountered resistance from its client cities regarding the collection of such substantial and much needed tax revenues."

It is likely corruption,k this is California after all.

Wrote a few more lines of code

Now when the client just enters the table name, it returns the table, as a Json string, not quite a query. But when the client names a table everything is done right. So that is three quarters of the way to table space and only 15 lines of code!

Gingrich, liar politician on parade

Speaking at a rally here Thursday, Mr. Gingrich said, Mr. Obama should announce “he will fire Secretary Chu and get somebody who favors less expense gasoline” during his energy speech Thursday in New Hampshire. Mr. Obama made no such announcement. ABC News

Tht would be a Republican voters believing his nonsense.

Here is some stupidity from the Sacromento mayor

Sacramento will contribute $255 million to new arena

Stockton, just down the road is going bankrupt. Mayor Johnson has no clue, he expects the legislature will bail him out when the bankruptcy hits. He has the Great Exogenous religion.

ATT calls be back, the robot wants to conduct a survey

How well did the call center handle my issus he robot wants to know. The cakk center had nothing to do or say, they are kept away from the Uverse monopoly scam against unauthorized ayment centers. What can she say? The president of the Uverse division is in cahoots with the CEO of ATAT and they should both be fired, or brought to trial for anti-trust violation? WTF, robots are supposed to protect ATT executives from the law when they engage in the shenanigans.

Consumers were not interested in upgrading to television, subscriptions were down. ost of the subcrioption growth has occurred as a result of fraud and churn, and the whole Uverse scam is going to be a money loser. The ATT CEO needs to be fired immediately.

The American wants you to pay for the Socialist Defense network

The debate over defense spending is teetering around a tipping point: should it be more about spending, or more about defense? The former seems to have gained the edge for now, with a preponderance of politicians on both sides spending more time talking about fiscal spending cuts, deficits, and debt than about national security goals, strategies, and threats.American

Steve Conovoer exlains why California should be erquired to pay for a defense build up that his Tea party socialists want. Sorry, no sale. If you want to go galavanting around the world in carriers, make the Tea Party idiots pay for it.

An actual ten lines of software

Making changes to accommodate Json syntax is a breeze, making this thing useful is a breeze. Everything happens in the proper order, I can't program any other way, its too complicated when operational sequences become out of order. So this base of code will exist indefinitely with minor tweeks here and there as Json becomes a useful database syntax. What makes is all so easy is the forward looking grammar. The breakthrough came when I decided to build this thing internally with Qson format, suddenly all the internals became simple. Json just becomes the interface.

Another measure of inflation

From American Institute for Economic Research. The AIER measures everyday purchases, variable household expenses.
HT Hot Air

Live Webcast!!

I hear hat all the time in the tech industry, tune into a live webcast on Windows 8. If you are an illiterate programmer, webcasts don't help, one still needs to read the user manual.

This is nutty

China is preparing to overhaul a key criminal law amid public confusion _ and some dread _ over whether the government is about to give police the legal authority to disappear people.

At issue is an amendment to the criminal procedure law that would allow police to secretly detain suspects for months without informing their families. The effect would be to legalize the secret detentions police have increasingly been using against political critics, activist lawyers and other dissidents. Activist Hu Jia, himself living under a form of house arrest, has dubbed it the "KGB clause." Las Vegas Sun

Stupid Chinese apparatchiks